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Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 01:54
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gcmartin wrote:
We just need good Pussy.
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Posted: Wed 13 Feb 2013, 00:44
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mini-jaguar wrote:
That sounds really cool about the upcoming version, I've tried Pussy xtra several times, but it got a little confusing because of the menus, including that there are menus for Debian and Pussy apps and some are repeated.
And that wallpaper was really awesome, although I've rebooted back into it and I can't figure out how I made it appear. I did it on the third or fourth boot anyways, it's not obvious.
But I did like that it had lmms. It would be nice if the new version has Ardour, although I certainly wouldn't mind some lesser known apps like Jokosher, GNUSound, or JahShaka.
Hi buddy
Old Pussy booted into a JWM XORG desktop without roxfiler enabled by default, to save ram (using this you could actually run Pussy with 64MB RAM reasonably ok). If you want to bring up the high quality desktop then click on the "meow?" menu tab then click on the "Rox Filer Background" tab. This enables the high quality desktop.
In the next version of pussy, it will automatically boot to the high quality desktop with rox filer running and managing the background wallpaper etc.
You have a right to be confused bu the double Pussy and Deban menus, that was an actual bug. I just wanted there to be Pussy or Programs or Accessories or whatever menu there, but for some reason JWM always insisted on putting a Debian entry there and when you install stuff by apt-get the updated menu entry would end up in Debian. But all the custom stuff was in Pussy because the debian base wouldnt allow the custom stufff to be in Debian.
The real problem here is the auto added stuff you install would auto add itself to Debian menu selection but it wouldnt work. This is why we needed to add another custom section, i called Pussy that actually had working menus. It was a mess.
i think saintless came up with a work around and this will be fixed in the next version.
thanks for suggesting the other applications at the end of your post, i will check them out. I use Linux to make music as well and i definately want all the best audio creation/ editing stuff to be in Pussy.
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Posted: Wed 13 Feb 2013, 00:50
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nooby wrote:
sickgut so much to read through Hope you
and everubody can have patience with me now.
I boot that new iso and all works well but I am at a prompt
and have no idea what to write for to get a desktop?
Very embarrassing but that is me.
There is nothing other than a bare console in that wheezy-base.iso
not a Pussy yet, just the bare bones that Pussy will be built on top of, there is no desktop etc. However network stuff is autodetected and there is all the usual Linux command line commands and its a good base for someone wanting to make their own Linux OS by building ontop of this, its really only useful for developers and is half the size or less than the same ISO downloaded from the official Debian Live servers because ive slimmed it. But if you wanted to add a desktop then try:
sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get install xorg jwm rox-filer
You might want to have something better than JWM as the window manager as its pretty damn terrible if it hasnt been tweaked.
If you are going for a lighter desktop then try instead without rox-filer then:
apt-get install xorg fluxbox
Fluxbox kind of has more working features than most Window Managers in their default un tweaked state.
Thanks for testing the iso, did you boot the actual ISO in GRUB or copy the files from the ISO onto the HDD and boot it frugally with GRUB that way?
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Posted: Wed 13 Feb 2013, 01:08
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gcmartin wrote:
... isnt going to be happening anymore. Keeping track and sync of all the squashfs files working together took so much upkeep its not worth it. ...
This is one of the major tactical changes that today's PCs afford this development community.
The main PCs that this community is using is a 2006 or later PC which was a 1GB standard even then. (There are very very few users whose ONLY PC is a 256MB PC, earlier than 2006.) And, for those pre-2006 PC it is hoped that their PC running Linux is still as speedy today as when they first booted it last year or earlier. Primarily, 2006+ PCs give developers a platform where they have enough room to provide the very best OOTB comfortable user experience possible. They were not able to do this years ago. Now, functionality has become much more important than limited usability due to size.
One idea that several of the distro developers have utilized is they indicate in the Opening Thread in some occasions, what spec PC they intend as the minimum platform for their distro. Some have gone so far as to indicate the minimum, but, put a disclaimer that says it "MAY" run on platforms less than the minimum. But doing so, it is understood what the distro developer is suggesting as a comfortable system to support what is delivered.
I have run many distros in the community, and have NOT found, even, one distro that did NOT find comfort in all of my 2006+ PCs. 2 years ago, the developers in Puppy Linux was a 32bit leader in producing PUPs that run on PCs with as little as 512MB to as much RAM as is physically possible to cram into a system. And, those new generation 32bit PC did NOT lose a step with their older technology 32bit kernel distro brethren. In fact, community members were reporting positive responsiveness with PAE distros compared to the non-PAE versions.
At the end of 2010, 2 64bit PUPs appeared. One a 200MB version and the other a robust 600MB version. In running each, the 600MB version was, simply, as fast, if not faster than the 200MB version. What this demonstrates to community members is that the size of the distro has little to do with the user performance needs for their system. The biggest advantage of the 600MB system was that I had little to no need to install anything in using it. I ran that system for a year with its only reboot was on its first day after desktop tailoring to get a save-session image of the system.
I think that many members in this community, too, may have a system or 2 that they rarely touch, while they experiment with the distros that they test from time-to-time.
Hopefully, others will share their successful operations so that it helps you to decide the kind of systems you would want for their use.
We just need good Pussy.
i completely agree with you. Now that disk space is huge on the normal PC (even from 2006) and USB sticks and SD cards and blank CDROM and DVD's are so cheap. then its best to make an OS fit snugly on the media its intended for and include as much functionality as Possible. There is no point in a 100 or 200MB distro anymore, it costs the same to burn a 100MB distro to a DVD as a 4GB distro. Also like you said, smaller size on the disk doesnt mean faster. The only way smaller 100MB or 200Mb distros are faster than 600MB ones is your using copy to RAM and running it from RAM. Today we have PCs with 4GB and even 16GB RAM.
The size of the media Pussy is intended to be installed on will gauge its size, except for Pussy server as its hard to make a console only OS fill an entire CDROM:
Pussy server (less than 600mb)
Pussy standard (700MB CDROM sized)
Pussy DVD edition (4GB or so, to fit on a DVD)
Note: the new Pussy standard will be the equivalent of the old Pussy Xtra. Pussy standard will probably just be called Pussy.
Im listing this stuff here because im leading to a point:
There will be no half assed small desktop distro that needs you to install everything to be any use like the old Pussy Base.
The days of installing an OS then spending a day or two finding and installing everything you need are over. All free OSes should have all the stuff you need in them right from boot, or GTFO.
super agree with you gcmartin, im not trying over agree with you and make you uncomfortable, so lets just say i agree with you alot.
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Posted: Wed 13 Feb 2013, 03:30
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I had promised myself to boot as many OS as I could
using rcrsn51 version of Scooby's easy to boot
that is renamed by rcrsn51 to isobooter that makes
it always fresh boot I guess always calling the "live"
so maybe no persistence other than if one know how
to do such on usb on live OS. thanks for your suggestions
i think I stick to CrunchBang and Zorin and Netrunner
that have almost everything installed from scratch
and are still under 1GB so they fit a small cheap old usb
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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Posted: Wed 13 Feb 2013, 14:37
Post subject: Some current full featured examples
There are 2 Puppy distros that I have run, continuously, since their introduction primarily because they are so fully featured with little to no need to add anything externally. They are LightHouse Mariner (64bit) and Slacko's FATSlacko (32bit). FATDOG64 also comes to mind but does not bring some office packaging or sharing that the others bring OOTB. All of these fit nicely on a CD (ranging 250-550MB)
This info is presented, merely, as examples of some of the efforts others in the Puppy community present for a much fuller (and stable) OOTB solution for community's productive use. These provide an integration in the OOTB which is assembled proper, and tested leaving little to chance in system issues from incorrect PPM/product additions which sometimes occur when users attempt upgrades. Each of these distros bring forward the same ability to extend the system that all prior PUPs bring to the table.
This does not suggest anything at all about Pussy or your direction. For Pussy is a well concieved, thought thru, and assembled packaging that WORKS! The ideas on the other distros in done ONLY to provide a look at what is an OOTB experience where anyone with a Apple/Windows background (99% of the world's PC users) would be totally impressed with. The 2 authors seemed to have tried to cover everything any user (much less Windows user) would ever look for, OOTB.
You have done a wonderful creation with Pussy. I look forward to your future creations. And, we will help in any way, same as most/all other Puppy contributors would, to bring usefulness to the community.
Thanks for all you've done
and all you intend to do for us.
Get ACTIVE Create Circles; Do those good things which benefit people's needs!
We are all related ... Its time to show that we know this!
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Posted: Wed 13 Feb 2013, 15:30
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Linux could be so epic its not funny.
Windows seems to be the standard everyone is trying to make a Linux distro to be like, simply to help people move from windows to Linux.....
But Windows OOTB is rather lame, and adding stuff is even lamererer.
You want firefox? ok goto www.firefox.com ... You want a better DVD player software ? Sort through 100 google searches and websites. And dont forget all the crap with needing antivirus, antispyware... goto www.gimp.org to get gimp, goto the sun/ oracle website then find what java you need, then goto adobes website to find flash. Then download a wav editor and goto www.fruityloops.com for the demo of flstudio, then sort though 100 different web pages for a decent dvd to mp4 file ripper and dont forget to pay for MS Office, coz thats got to be the best right?
OK lets get a free game... Open Arena at www.openarena.ws (because everyone automatically guesses that Open Arena would be at a .ws site and not a .com right?)
Dont forget that installing windows takes about half a day once your done with drivers. And then searching for all your apps will take the other half of the day.
Thats how you do things in Windows... but in a well sorted linux?
Insert Linux CDROM or DVD, copy save file to HDD or select USB stick install or HDD frugal or whatever it is,we all know how quick this is with Puppy or Pussy... Maybe 20 mins if yo havent had your coffee for the day?
Ok so how long to install all your apps ?
One command line, easy ... just type this:
apt-get install firefox mplayer nonfree-codecs gimp java lmms mhwavedit handbreak flash libreoffice openarena
This might take you 2 minutes if you type one handed with one finger and dont have any thumbs.
May take 10 - 15 mins over an industry standard adsl or over cable internet connection then maybe 5 minutes or less to download, then another 3 minutes to let apt-get install it all.
and thats all you need to do on debian or ubuntu or pussy. One command, all done, simple. Way better than Windows by a factor of 22 thousand, 4 hundred and thirty 3 point 2. Well that long ass number might be a little over stated but you all get my point
Windows 7 install and general system setup with everything you need = 1 day.
A Live Linux OS with apt-get: 20 mins to half an hour for a novice, a newbie may require an hour.
So much potential its simply not funny.
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Posted: Wed 13 Feb 2013, 17:26
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Please add Freeoffice2012 into pussy if poss. Ta
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Posted: Thu 14 Feb 2013, 03:38
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greengeek wrote:
Please add Freeoffice2012 into pussy if poss. Ta
no problem ill check it out, thanks for your input
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Posted: Thu 14 Feb 2013, 03:47
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Ok people im taking a few days off, to catch up on sleep and to destress, get my mind right. Silly freaking strange cant remember writing some posts on forums and wondering what the f*** is up.
this isnt as bad as it sounds, this kinda thing happens when you dont sleep for 3 or 4 days at a time. Dream and reality kinda merge. I even quoted someone saying something in reponse to one of my posts and he didnt even write comment, it never existed.
so, this is a wake up call. More sleep, get myself sorted and come back fresh and rested and not crazy.
ive been doing this development thing for years now and i still have no idea what is a sustainable work load and what is not. I also say the same thing over and over again in a loop when i get this tired and i can see this was happening recent when i read back on my posts.
anyway, not to worry, im fine, this is a pre existing condition that i have been managing for many years and its not like i just went crazy or had a breakdown or anything. Its just sleep deprivation. I code, then cant get it out my head, i think instead of sleep and boom, right back here again telling everyone im taking time off for like the 3rd time since this thread started.
ok im rambling, ill see you all round in a few days
keep you pussy cats stored safely on shelves and make sure thay have pleanty of water along with the dried cat food. Remember to pick them up, cuddle them pat them and play with them for atleast 15 mins a day.
and im outa here for a bit. see you all soon.
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Posted: Thu 14 Feb 2013, 08:50
Post subject: Im asking for help and a favour
Subject description: Please list all the apps you use on your Linux.
ok one more post before my 3 day sleep holiday or whatever.
As ive said many times, i have no idea how normal people use a computer.
Over the next few days i wont be checking the forum but there is something i want to ask the Puppy/ Pussy community to do for me.
I need to know exactly what apps you use. Be selfish, post here what you want in an awesome and capable out of the box OOTB Pussy solution. Pussy is still in development and application selection in a standard Pussy is still something i am experimenting with.
If you have the time please post here all the apps you expect to be in an awesome OOTB Pussy. There is 10 different apps for everything, choosing the best one of the 10 is the real trick.
Pussy is for this community, its not advertised anywhere else. I want to include all the apps that YOU want, YOU being anyone who is remotely interested in Puppy and Pussy.
Now that the skeleton base ISO is finished the next thing for me to do is install all the apps/ desktop/ networking stuff etc.
It would be really helpful to me if in 3 days time or so i come back to this thread and some people have listed all the apps they use.
a source of easily addable apps can be searched and found at:
http://packages.debian.org and select "testing" or "wheezy" to do your searches.
Pussy doesnt HAVE to stick to the debian repos, in the old pussy some apps where installed statically in their own folders. So if you favorite app isnt in the debian repos but can be download from some other site, then please tell me the app and maybe the site.
Like i said, be selfish. If you dont use an office suite then dont feel you have to say that you want openoffice or freeoffice or whatever. Please dont feel like you have to mention an office package just because every other OS has one or you are catering for the needs of others. Please just list the apps you wanna use, and screw everyone else. This information it critical for the next step of developing the new pussy. I simply are not familiar with newer packages and i dont have much of an idea what new fancy things are out there.
List YOUR apps, as this OS if for YOU. A DVD sized Pussy has room enough on the DVD to include ANYTHING you want in Pussy.
Example. DVD is 4GB or so in size, apps are installed in the OS and then compressed in a squashfs file. Squashfs compression is so much that it is completely reasonable to actually have 10 to 15 or maybe even 20GB of actual OS storage space to use all on a 4GB DVD.
I dont want Pussy to just include "general generic application that every other OS has but no one ever uses" so being very average and mediocre you can please the most amount of people a little bit.
I want Pussy to be the opposite of this. I want to make the Pussy community 100% happy and screw everyone else.
Pussy told me today that he doesnt want to please a million average users only 50% , he told me that he wants to please a lesser group 100% and he doesnt want crappy apps that where chosen because they are the smallest to fit on the ISO and only offer mediocre useability that force you to install something that is actually useful. Pussy want to please you all with a true ultimate OOTB experience that has everything in it to begin with.
Pussy also came home drunk and smacked me around a bit and then told me he wants WINE in the OS, so if there is free Windows apps that run on WINE that anyone wants to use and its not available in Linux there is no problem. if your favorite app only made for Windows there is no shame in setting it up to use WINE
i know all these different apps will use a bit more ram,especially network related apps that are running all the time in the background etc, or a bluetooth app that just sits there in RAM until it detects a bluetooth device.
The trick here is edit the start routine, All the RAM hog apps like that can be removed from the boot sequence in the catroll-panel.
Large disk usage of an OS doesnt equate to lower performance or higher RAM usage. The only thing that really matters is how many programs/ apps/ daemons you have loaded/ running in RAM. Clicking on a simple catroll-panel will permanently disable the things you dont need, and if your using persistence or full HDD install, you can uninstall the these apps from the OS permanently with the click of a mouse. I think all the silly bluetooth stuff will be enabled and work on first boot, so people can connect their device immediately and it just works. For an OOTB experience that makes sense and the user can disable if the like. I think its better than not having these kind of RAM hog apps disabled so the user trying to connect his blueteeth doesnt have to hunt around or look online or go to a irc chat room to ask people how to enable blootoof.
Ok im rambling again, time to sleep.... post people, post your prefered apps.
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Posted: Thu 14 Feb 2013, 17:17
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Ok, here's what I want:
I want every app you can fit in. I want both Libreoffice AND Freeoffice2012 because they both appeal to different users. I also want Dillo, and Seamonkey, and Opera and QTWeb browser; but I want the lightweight ones to be in a separate submenu.
This would be a useful feature for a distro intended to be run live, because lets face it, the user will be trialling Pussy on all sorts of hardware with widely differing specs. If there is a separate menu for apps known to be lightweight (and therefore having fewer features perhaps) it would enhance the useability on some machines. No point waiting 2 hours for Libreoffice to load because you already know that there is a quick alternative in the "lightweight" submenu.
Maybe users could suggest their favourite fully featured heavyweight apps and also a separate list of lightweight stuff? Here's mine:
Fully featured heavyweights:
Seamonkey (latest preconfigured with Flash)
LMMS or similar
Mplayer (one of the cutdown versions from Technosaurus etc)
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Posted: Fri 15 Feb 2013, 00:13
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Here is my list
Google Earth
QtWeb browser
Pfind file searcher
Flsynclient touchpad config
GatoTray monitor (temp+cpu)
Pmount (or Mut) (prefer both)
Many thanks and very best regards - Ray
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IBM A21m
laptop. 192mb ram. PIII Coppermine proc.
T2400 1.8Ghz proc. 2gig ram. 80gb hdd.
Pentium M 1400Mhz. 512mb ram.
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Posted: Fri 15 Feb 2013, 19:52
Post subject: Re: Im asking for help and a favour
Subject description: Please list all the apps you use on your Linux.
sickgut wrote:
Example. DVD is 4GB or so in size, apps are installed in the OS and then compressed in a squashfs file. Squashfs compression is so much that it is completely reasonable to actually have 10 to 15 or maybe even 20GB of actual OS storage space to use all on a 4GB DVD.
If you manage to get a SFS file to work over 600 mb... please let me know what you've done to make it work. I find that after about 500~600mb in a single SFS... md5 sums for the files when expanded tend to start to fail hash check.
I havent looked into the problem much... because Ive only dealt with it a few times here or there... but if you're able to find it and resolve it, I'd be interested in how you did it.
btw... how exactly are you going to manage the boot time to load everything into ram? loading a 4gb dvd into ram is going to be painfully slow. And running from a DVD is painfully slow as well. most dvd players max out at just over 16mbit/s read rate. So for a 4gb dvd... you're looking at over half an hour load time. As for using lots of SFS files, have you worked any speed benchmarks for loading, say 16gb, into a layered file system? I dont know if anyone's attempted it before, so I'm curious.
Or are you planning on pussy being a strict 'install to HD' release, thus forgoing the above speed issues?
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Posted: Sat 16 Feb 2013, 04:14
Post subject: Re: Im asking for help and a favour
Subject description: Please list all the apps you use on your Linux.
Q5sys wrote:
sickgut wrote:
Example. DVD is 4GB or so in size, apps are installed in the OS and then compressed in a squashfs file. Squashfs compression is so much that it is completely reasonable to actually have 10 to 15 or maybe even 20GB of actual OS storage space to use all on a 4GB DVD.
If you manage to get a SFS file to work over 600 mb... please let me know what you've done to make it work. I find that after about 500~600mb in a single SFS... md5 sums for the files when expanded tend to start to fail hash check.
I havent looked into the problem much... because Ive only dealt with it a few times here or there... but if you're able to find it and resolve it, I'd be interested in how you did it.
btw... how exactly are you going to manage the boot time to load everything into ram? loading a 4gb dvd into ram is going to be painfully slow. And running from a DVD is painfully slow as well. most dvd players max out at just over 16mbit/s read rate. So for a 4gb dvd... you're looking at over half an hour load time. As for using lots of SFS files, have you worked any speed benchmarks for loading, say 16gb, into a layered file system? I dont know if anyone's attempted it before, so I'm curious.
Or are you planning on pussy being a strict 'install to HD' release, thus forgoing the above speed issues?
Ah huh, you make a good point and what you are asking about is very well explained and definately warrants a good explanation. Thanks for posting your question.
Running from RAM is a secondary thing in Pussy. Ofcause, it doesnt matter how fast your computer is, 4gb to copy to RAM is just plain stupid. However, it will be an option in the boot sequence for "why the hell not-ess".
100mb or 200mb copy to RAM is painless. 600MB is a pain. 4GB is like grinding your blueteef down a chalk board so the scratching sound gets o your nerves and you have terrible teeth pain with permanent damage.
I dont think Pussy can even live that long, even with a Powerful RADAR treatment with magnets, a wizard and stem cells.
The only reason anyone would want to do that is if you only have 1 DVD and you have 8GB of RAM or more and you are at your friends house and you want to show him how the OS works on his other 3 computers too.
In early to mid 2000's DSL and Puppy took the world by storm. 128MB RAM with 400mhz CPU was common. And if you where awesome enough to have 256MB RAM then copy to RAM is great, because once its loaded up there is no HDD slowing everything down. And HDD's and USB sticks where small and slow. RAM was fast, always has been. Even these days the fastest SSD has way more seek time than very old EDO 4MB RAM. HDD access is measured in milli seconds, RAM is nano seconds, even very old RAM.
It makes sense to load all your OS to RAM if you have double the recommended RAM required to run these 2 OSes.
But things have changed since 2006. USB sticks with USB version 3.0 are so fast and once you have clicked your mouse around your screen for a minute or two, so much information has been cached into RAM already, way more than what a computer could do in 2006. This setup is so fast, that the 20 or 30 seconds needed to copy to RAM from a frugal HDD install is just wasted time. Old Pussy could boot to the login screen in less than 11 seconds and your up and running. However using copy to RAM on Pussy Xtra which is a full sized CDROM ISO, is just a minute or 40 seconds wasted time and the performance increase over simply running the OS from a USB stick with USB 2.0 that is 4GB in size or a frugal HDD install this makes not real difference to the user experience. You boot into the OS quicker with no copy to RAM, and once you are booted into the OS, all you have done is waste 600MB of your RAM and there is no noticable difference in speed once your all loaded up and ready.
However, yes, DVD and CDROMs arent anywhere near as fast as USB or HDD. Here, if you do use copy to RAM, it will be faster once you are loaded. Live CDROM or DVD is not a real option for permanent you, it is a complete option in that it does everything right, but it is slow.
When i was developing the last version of Pussy, i mainly just used a Live CDROM at my neibours house when i went there for dinner and used his computer while everyone else either watched DVD's or played online FPS with me but i would always have an hour or two to spend on Pussy deving.
CDROM and DVD is an easy peasy newbie solution for using a computer without damaging anything. And using a USB stick that is the save file means that everything is saved and safe. For me, because i am patient i didnt care about the slower boot times etc, also i would copy the disk 4 times and everyone would load up Pussy with me when we played games. No save file, just running from the DVD or CDROM. Assault cube was the FPS game included in Pussy and we played online like that for months.
When compared to playing games on a Playstation 2, the load times arent anything to complain about and everything was guaranteed to work as we all had the same version of everything. These where all Windows computers and they had no interest in linux at all (half of them could even read, so you get my drift here, Tasmania isnt New York, you dont even need to finish highschool to work in the mines here and you get paid more than a high end IT guy) and it was still easy, click on the blood splattered icon in the middle of the screen, BOOM. Game on.
Live CDROM/ DVD is clean, safe and practical, excellent for Lan Parties as you know it will all work and if it doesnt just reboot. You cant damage the system no matter what you do. Its also an excellent way to preview the OS and for me, it was an excellent way to develop the OS when moving from computer to computer. But, we never used copy to RAM. It would actually add to the amount of time you could fire up Assault Cube by a fair margin.
Maybe DVD and data transfer speeds will be something different in 8 years time (anyone have an idea how fast bluray is when running Pussy Blueray edition? I have no idea. Will wait and see.)
So in summary:
1) copy to RAM is a feature that will be available for all Pussies large and small and it will work better than last Pussy and you can get it to only load one squashfs, not the entire partition or live media as with old Pussy.
2) Its simply not practical to use copy to RAM on Pussy DVD. We dont expect people to do this. A CDROM ISO isnt too bad however and if you have one CDROM and 4 computers you need to run that day, then copy to ram on all four will probably only add 10 or 15 so minutes to your 4 computers booting up. Pussy server should load into RAM very quickly.
3) I dont really care about loading into RAM much, its not something i would bother to improve and i will just take what the debian live people have setup. With full featured Pussy OSes that have everything in them (ie 600MB CDROM ISO) then copy to RAM starts to drag on a bit. Best to just run off of the HDD or USB stick. CDROM/ DVD is just to preview or install the OS. Or to use other peoples computers without them getting mad at you. However, i run Live CDROM and DVD most the time just coz i feel like a bad ass using my own Live OS.
4) The squashfs over 4G in size is something of a concern when using FAT32 USB sticks or frugal installs etc. Making working squashfs files that are 4GB on an NTFS or EXT2,3,4 partition is trouble free. Also, i know everyone hates me for this but i dont really care about MD5 SUMS. If it dont work for you downloading, message me, email me or even post here and ill send you a free Pussy DVD or CDROM. No questions asked.
When this new Pussy is finished ill be getting some actual paper manuals printed. And create a box set that includes the CDROM, a 8GB USB stick and a DVDROM and a few Post cards and stickers, this will be available to purchase from the website for like $20 and is pretty much my cost. Users who buy one of these kits will also have a reference number they can redeem for free one on one tech advice with me via email or skype or the chatroom that will kinda have some game elements to it on the website or support icon on the desktop like Puppy has or used to have. Users will get to talk to sickgut himself about any prob and ill help best i can.
(the game stuff tends to keep people calm while they wait for people to reply to stuff.)
HDD install that is not live (the installer itself rips the guts out of the live system at the end of install) is not a good thing for developers, who want to make special OS containing squashfs, it wont work. Static installed single app squashfs will still work. This sets up all the GRUB dual boot stuff as well as any other leading Linux brand. I wont ever use this, but many many people will. Especially newbies, as the install is freakishly simple. This HDD install will boot and use only like 48MB or something of RAM as the Live system takes up atleast 50 or MB of RAM. Low RAM computers with say 10GB HDD space will love this. But the DVD HDD install will probably nees 15GB space or 20GB to make it usable so you can actually save all your stuff for a year or so.
Sorry for the over long reply but i am not just addressing you, im kinda recounting the whole thing for everyone on the forum who comes here.
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:Pickfords kicks are amazing.. shame they go straight through to the oppositions goalkeeper too much.
Perhaps the development over the last 3 prem games that I am most excited about is Holgate's emergence as a viable CB option. It has been great to see.
Niasse was awful. One of the worst 'hold the ball up, buy your team time and get them up the pitch' attempts I've ever seen. It was utterly pathetic. He was much worse than Martina, who had a thankless task, out of position and isolated against one of the form players in world football.
Ie not really noticed that Holgates even playing in the last few games.Thats either the sign of a class player or his CD partner is working twice as hard. I suspect the former.
Kenny aside I thought gana was our best player and has been for a good few weeks now.
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When you haven't seen something fast growing for several weeks such as a child or Russian vine the temptation to say, 'my haven't you grown!' is very great.
This urge should be avoided as it annoys those concerned, by patronising kids or rebuking gardeners. Yet returning from a short tweet break this morning I muttered these very words on reading about the fifth anniversary of twitter so breaking this rule of the blindingly obvious.
Yet leaping to my own defence it is not just the speed of growth with twitter that is dramatic. It is the manner of its growth and what it has done to the way internet-based opinion and influence has developed that is very interesting, and weirdly so. A really interesting post on Elise's Review prompted this thought with the question 'Is social media becoming more about mass broadcasting than conversation?'
Twitter's growth has been about amplification of opinions, influence and conversations. At times this has made it appear more like broadcasting and certainly it has made the conversation louder, shorter and less genteel. Yet in interacting with media and blogs I would argue that twitter is amplifying and sharing ideas that often start in long form in other media platforms. This is different from broadcasting although it does make the conversation less sophisticated in many cases. I would describe it as a broader conversation rather than a broadcast.
Indeed as twitter grows its ability to amplify grows too so amplifying the amplifier. Some bloggers who began as highly focused 'Influentials' talking to only niche groups have become stars and engaged in very broad conversations. They often start to post less frequently but when they do they reach bigger, much bigger numbers.
The post pointed out that now more people get news from the Internet than traditional newspapers. This too is a part of the amplification process with e-zines merging with communities and a more dialogue driven view of the news. The key dynamic here is the way twitter helps ideas and stories leapfrog between niche communities. Again this seems to be of the great strengths of twitter it takes news from niches and can make them part of a broad community.
As it grows this does not mean twitter is all about these broader conversations. Clearly there a niche areas such as middle aged cycling that have drawn together quite large but discrete groups who don't make it as trending topics. But even these conversations have become broader. So back to the blindingly obvious not always being easy to adopt I quote one point in the Elise's Review below:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Roy Moore, the GOP nominee for Senate in Alabama (all times local):
10:30 p.m.
Steve Bannon is slamming The Washington Post as part of the "opposition party" after the newspaper reported allegations of sexual misconduct by Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, was among Moore's most vocal supporters this fall. He referenced the Alabama controversy only briefly during an appearance Thursday night in New Hampshire.
Bannon is calling the Post an "apparatus of the Democratic Party" and notes it was among the first to report the "Access Hollywood" tape that caught Trump using sexually predatory language in 2005.
Bannon asks, "Now is that a coincidence? That's what I mean when I say opposition party."
The Post reported Thursday that an Alabama woman said Moore, then a 32-year-old assistant district attorney, had sexual contact with her when she was 14.
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Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama is facing lurid allegations of sexual misconduct with minors decades ago - and an immediate backlash from party leaders demanding he get out of the race if the accusations prove true.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that an Alabama woman said Moore, then a 32-year-old assistant district attorney, had sexual contact with her when she was 14. Three other women interviewed by the Post said Moore, now 70, approached them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s.
The Moore campaign is denying the Post report as "the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation."
Moore himself has issued a fundraising appeal asking for emergency donations in a "spiritual battle."
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Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore is telling potential donors in a new fundraising pitch that "the forces of evil are on the march in our country."
Moore is appealing for donations in his race for a Senate seat from Alabama just hours after the Washington Post reported allegations that Moore had sexual contact with a woman when she was 14 and he was 32. His campaign has called the report fake news.
In the fundraising plea, Moore says "the Obama-Clinton Machine's liberal media lapdogs just launched the most vicious and nasty round of attacks against me I've EVER faced."
Moore says he refuses to repeat their lies, and he's counting on the help of "God-fearing conservatives like you to stand with me at this critical moment."
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Senate candidate Roy Moore's campaign is calling allegations of sexual misconduct "the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation."
The campaign released a statement on Thursday after The Washington Post reported the Alabama Republican candidate had sexual contact with one teenager and pursued three others nearly four decades ago.
The campaign says, "Judge Roy Moore has endured the most outlandish attacks on any candidate in the modern political arena, but this story in today's Washington Post alleging sexual impropriety takes the cake."
The statement also notes that Moore has been married to the same woman for 33 years and has four children and five grandchildren.
It continues: "After over 40 years of public service, if any of these allegations were true, they would have been made public long before now."
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It's too late for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore's name to be removed from the ballot, even if he wants to drop out.
That's according to John Bennett, a spokesman for the Alabama secretary of state.
Bennett says the party and candidate can revoke the Republican's nomination, but his name would appear regardless, because a key deadline has already passed. Bennett says In such a scenario, even if Moore earned more votes than the Democrat, the state canvassing board would declare the Democrat the winner.
Several senior Republicans called on Moore to quit the race after The Washington Post reported allegations of sexual misconduct.
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The top Senate Republican says if the report about Alabama candidate Roy Moore and sexual contact with a 14-year-old is true, he should drop out of the race.
In a one-sentence statement Thursday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says: "If these allegations are true, he must step aside."
The response was swift from Senate Republicans shortly after The Washington Post story about Moore initiating a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl several decades ago.
Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado says, "The allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore are deeply troubling." Gardner chairs the Republican senatorial campaign committee. He adds, "If these allegations are found to be true, Roy Moore must drop out of the Alabama special Senate election."
Sens. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Jeff Flake of Arizona echoed those comments, and No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn of Texas calls the report "deeply troubling."
The election is Dec. 12.
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An Alabama woman says Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for next month's U.S. Senate election, made inappropriate advances and had sexual contact with her when she was 14, according to a Washington Post story Thursday. The Senate's GOP leader said if the report is shown to be true, Moore must step aside.
The woman, Leigh Corfman, says Moore met her several times when he was a local prosecutor in his 30s and at one point drove her to his home where he touched her over her underwear and guided her hand to touch him over his, the Post reported. They did not have sexual intercourse, the Post said.
Aside from Corfman, three other women interviewed by the Post in recent weeks said Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s. None of the other women said that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact.


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Are Anglicans Marian?
Today is the 8th of December, the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Many ascribe this to the dogma that was proclaimed in 1854 by Pope Pius IX. Though this dogma is not necessary for salvation, its good to ponder the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Birth of the Messiah – the Son of the Living God and how, if God wanted, He could have chosen a fitting vessel, a sinless one to bear the Holy One of God.
Recently my wife and I journeyed to London and had chosen Lourdes, France for a quiet retreat before continuing our travels to India. In the 1800's this small town of Lourdes became the epicenter as the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Suberou. (Check Netflix for "The Song of Bernadette or do a Google search on Our Lady of Lourdes). At the time, few believed her vision or story, but to her, the visit from the Blessed Virgin was real, and miracle after miracle occurred, and continue to today.
The Massabielle grotto continuously streams with lines of pilgrims seeking her intercession just as the Blessed Mother sought her son's intercession at the Wedding of Cana in St. John's Gospel, "Son they have no wine." After the Lord objected to the timeliness of the "hour," He complies with his mother's request and performs His first miracle – changing water into wine in Galilee.
From the crib to Calvary and the cenacle (at the Pentecost) the Blessed Virgin accompanied her son as a faithful mother and disciple, thus being "blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." (Lk11:28) And the Fathers of the Church in Council of Ephesus acknowledged the Blessed Virgin as Theotokos – God bearer.
Lourdes, France, where pilgrims continue to visit.
Lourdes is the third Marian shrine I have visited besides Vailankanni in South India (close to Nagapattinam) and the Anglican Shrine of Walsingham in England. As all Anglicans do, I respect The Blessed Virgin and honor her; I do not worship her. My worship and adoration belongs to God and to God alone.
As we prepare for Christmas, the birthday of Christ, all Christians must consider the Blessed Virgin Mary and her role in the Birth of the Messiah. When humanity fell from grace through its disobedience, God promised a redeemer. God prepared the world through Patriarchs, Prophets and Kings for the coming of the Son of God. Then God sent angel Gabriel to ask for the consent of a young virgin of Nazareth.
God announced her role in Genesis 3, and prophets proclaimed her to be the virgin who shall conceive and bear a son (Isaiah 7:14). The same was confirmed through Angel Gabriel (Lk 1:28ff) and it was realized at His birth (Lk 2:7). This small mind of mine can only think that God could have chosen a vessel or receptacle that would be pure to house the Son of God.
All things are possible with God. I accept that and leave it to God that He could have made Mary sinless. I do not claim to play God and cast aspersions on "Hail Mary, full of grace."
The dogma of Immaculate Conception is not something on which our salvation hangs or depends, granted. But how could the sinless Savior could have been born in a sinful womb – that defies logic.
Often some belittle the Blessed Virgin Mary with certain veiled jabs with the irreplaceable position of the Lord Jesus Christ, "We have only one Mediator that is Jesus Christ," as though somehow the Blessed Virgin has replaced the only Mediator. They conveniently quote this verse to defend only a part of the argument, yet when in need of prayer, we ask family and friends to pray for us. Does that make us de facto intercessors who replace the one and only Mediator – Jesus Christ?
Apparently this "one mediator" argument is leveled each time we call upon the communion of saints to intercede on our behalf. They are before God's heavenly throne and it is their duty to chant: "Amen. Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honor and power and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen!" (Rev 7:12).
Do those who believe they are intercessors when offering to pray for someone else think themselves greater than the Mother of our Lord and God?
These same folks are willing to accept Paul's admonition to address each other 'saints,' yet do not care about the Blessed Virgin – the Blessed among all women and saint above all saints. When did we become better than the ones who lived and died for their faith in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Which of us can compare equality with her who was addressed by God's messenger as "Blessed." In Luke 1:48, Mary declares: "For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed. Who among women can be called "blessed" for ALL generations?
I do believe in intercession and in fact I am alive today by the grace of God and the prayers of wonderful people, many of the prayers going to the Blessed Mother for her to intercede before God.
During my prayer, I had this special vision of the face of Christ (to the left) as I gazed on the Blessed Virgin. Just look at the image on the rock left of the statue of the Blessed Virgin. You will see the mouth in the rock, near the lower part of the statue. Mary always points to Jesus. It's never about her, but the Savior she bore.
After leaving Lourdes, France we continued our journey to Nagapattinam, South India for follow-up to mission work we did when the tsunami hit, ten years earlier. A mosquito got me with its venomous inoculation. I ran high temperatures and visited a local doctor. Invariably the fever resurged each evening. Thankfully, we were toward the close of our visit and attempted a 12-hour night journey back to the city of Bangalore. My wife was hoping that we would make it without a problem, but my temperature spiked once the bus departed Nagapattinam.
Cutting it to the chase, I was diagnosed with dengue fever and severe dehydration and entered the ICU with failing kidneys, plummeting blood pressure, and extremely low blood platelets. My wife thought I wasn't going to make it and perhaps she'd be leaving my mortal remains behind in India. She sent email requests for prayers. Hundreds of people responded. Thanks to all the prayers, God heard them and I am alive by His grace. It is a true miracle.
Lots of Rosaries and prayers for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin resulted in me getting back home safe and well. Upon my return home, several people told me, "I prayed asking the Blessed Virgin's intercession and it's a miracle you are alive."
At times we need to fact check our hypocrisy when we conveniently assume the role of an intercessor before God for others and yet devalue the intercession of the communion of saints who have entered everlasting life by believing in Jesus who is the resurrection and life!
Or some quote the Lazarus story to say that the saints can't come to your rescue – stating there is a great divide and they cannot help. The divide in the story is between heaven and hell. God is bigger, mightier, and so he empowers His Angels (messengers) and saints – all of them are His servants.
I believe in the Communion of Saints is part of the Apostles Creed – the baptismal creed that anyone who aspired to become a Christian must subscribe to since the early church. Acts 2:40 speaks of the manner the early church grew in the faith: And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. (Acts 2:42)
The Church was founded by our Lord Jesus Christ. I would rather rely on Scripture that was divinely inspired and tradition that was divinely guided (Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. 2 Thess 2:15) and all the company of saints who lived and died as martyrs for their faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Let us embrace the fullness of faith and be concerned for the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. For us the Scripture, tradition of 2000 years (not the revised nor the one that sprung up yesterday) and reasoning guided by the Holy Spirit is sufficient to live and work for God's glory and the great commission.


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I met the gang last night at the café' with the delicious tea. Seeing my best friend again reminded me of how much I loved him. Every time I listen to Goo Goo Dolls it takes me back to a crazy vacation we went on together. Hell, I'm so madly in love with this guy whose CD collection could easily be mine. Last night it seemed that he liked what he saw and I liked what I saw. While we were talking, this one, I thought, might be a keeper. After 8 years he's still my favorite person to talk to.
I don't lie about my age. If someone asks I always tell the truth, but I never volunteer to.
Listening to Hip Hop isn't exactly a chore for me because it's tough not to groove to a great beat but I don't listen to this particular genre all the time. When I listen to music at work it must be something that'll calm and slow me way down! Anyway, before I digress. I listened to Kanye West and Estelle's new track 'American Boy'. The track has really been growing on me so I downloaded it. This is for you, Fudgy!
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This species' alternative names, the Barbary ape or rock ape are misleading; for though it lacks a tail, as do apes, it is in fact a macaque, belonging to the old world monkeys (4). A large monkey with a silky grey to brown or yellow coat and a dark pink face. Males are somewhat larger than females, though in appearance they are very similar. Like all macaques, they have powerful jaws, long canine teeth, and cheek pouches beside the lower teeth that extend down the sides of the neck (5). These pouches are used to store food when foraging and are able to hold a volume of food as large as the stomach (5).
Barbary macaques have a diet of fruit, young leaves, bark, roots and occasionally invertebrates. During the winter when food is scarce they forage for bark and evergreen needles (4). As social animals they live in troops of 12 to 60 (average approximately 24) individuals with females forming the core of the troop. Where there is abundant food and little human interference the home range sizes are smaller (2). Males will establish a hierarchy based on the outcome of competitive interactions, though ranking orders change regularly as males age, leave or enter the troop. The strongest and most successful males become dominant and generally do most of the mating, although all males in the troop may potentially mate with females (5). Reproduction may be somewhat seasonal, with births corresponding to highly productive seasons. Females give birth to a single offspring every one or two years, after a gestation of about five months, and twins are rare. The young are weaned after 12 months, and reach sexual maturity at 2.5 and 4 years old in females and 4.5 and 7 years old in males (5).
The mating system of this species is fascinating. Females mate with all male members of the troop, so males can never be sure of paternity (4). This promiscuous behaviour encourages males to look after one, or some of the young troop members, spending time grooming, protecting and playing with them, despite not knowing if they are their offspring (5). This may seem like an unselfish act, protecting another macaque's offspring, but because all males in the troop do the same, it is the only way the males can ensure that their offspring will survive. Young females remain within their natal group once they attain sexual maturity, whereas males disperse from their natal group. Becoming accepted into another group is, therefore, critical in the reproductive success of any individual male (5).
This species is found in Algeria, Morocco, and Gibraltar (1). It is the only primate, apart from humans, to live in Europe and the only macaque to live outside of Asia (6) (7). Legend has it that as long as Barbary macaques exist in Gibraltar, the region will remain under British rule. Thus, following an epidemic in the 1900s wiping out the macaque population, local authorities re-introduced them from the African mainland and now protect a small population of about 160 individuals (5).
In North Africa, this macaque inhabits oak and cedar forests, preferring mid and high altitude forests as well as scrub forest and cliff habitats. The climate is hot and dry in the summer and cold and snowy in the summer (5).
This species is threatened by habitat loss from logging and human settlements, as well as hunting (8). In Algeria forest fires and livestock grazing are additional problems, and some young animals are captured as pets. In Morocco the problems of logging and overgrazing are exacerbated by drought. Moroccan forestry authorities have considered culling macaques because of their bark stripping. They were once found throughout North Africa but now only exist in small areas (9).
Seen as a symbol of Gibraltar and valued as a tourist attraction, these macaques are protected to some extent (4). In Algeria, this species is protected in several national parks, but there are few active conservation policies elsewhere. There have been proposals to re-introduce them to the Kouf National Park in Libya, and also to re-introduce them to Tunisia (9). The World Conservation Union recommends further population studies of the Barbary macaque, and also the investigation of the bark-stripping problem in Morocco. National park protection must also be implemented more effectively (9).
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Lynx 'cops and robbers' by BBH
Lynx is promoting a new variant, called Lynx Attract, that includes a female fragrance.
The campaign will launch with a teaser video created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty and directed by Chris Palmer that is designed to show the impact of the "Lynx Effect" on both sexes.
A female cop and a male robber run through the streets in a seemingly intense chase scene. The film ends with the strapline: "Nothing will ever be the same again."
It was created by Daniel Schaefer and Szymon Rose. The production company was Gorgeous.
The £7.2 million campaign will cover TV, digital, cinema, out-of-home and PR. A TV ad that features people who are wearing the fragrance causing chaos will break in the UK on 1 February.


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TOANO — The Toano Farmer's Market sells a variety of regional products evey Saturday.
The market was built by the James City Bruton Volunteer Fire Department on donated land. Regular vendors products available include sausages, Brunswick Stew, country ham, BBQ, British Bangers and local honey, plus fresh eggs, baked goods and seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.
Toano Farmer's Market. Corner of Forge and Richmond roads, Toano.


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We can only hope the show somehow turns out to be less offensive than the casting notice.
Doron Ofir Casting, the firm that discovered Snooki (only one name necessary, thank you very much) and her "Jersey Shore" pals, reportedly has put out a casting call for a prospective new show called, "Party Down South."
The company, via a Web page, is searching for a dozen of the "hottest and proudest Southerners… who can prove the party down South will rise again."
We're going to assume the best and guess the copywriter was just going for a turn of phrase, and didn't realize the expression "the South will rise again," has its roots as a rallying cry for folks who weren't all that happy with the way the Civil War turned out.
But that doesn't make the saying's use any less noxious – and the full casting notice only bodes for another sleazy exploration of young adults acting out stereotypes as the cameras roll.
Wannabe cast members for "Party Down South" must be "keepin' it country and want to party their a--es off on the sickest reality show during one All-American summer! If you like your chicken fried, drive a pickup truck and you're full of American pride, we are looking for you!"
The casting search comes as a handful of other reality shows focusing on young adults from various ethnic groups reportedly are in the works – including programs about Russian-Americans, Asian-Americans and Persian-Americans.
At least MTV's "The Real World" made a stab at diversity, even if people from different walks of life were thrust into an artificial living situation. The "Jersey Shore"-inspired trend tends to celebrate insularity.
But maybe we're judging too harshly. The "Jersey Shore" cast members are expanding their horizons, bringing their fist-pumping brand of partying to Miami (they're due back on MTV next month).
Snooki's bold political stand against the tanning tax earned a tweet from Arizona Sen. John McCain, who perhaps had more important things than sunlamp fees to worry about when he was a young man. She became friends with Paris Hilton – and even reports she was exposed to some Southern culture herself during a recent stop in Savannah, GA.
"Eating fried pickles was a life-changing experience," Snooki declared.
That all of the above made news in the last week shows how "Jersey Shore" has further mutated a celebrity culture increasingly driven by people whose primary talent is a willingness to act foolishly for the camera. It's even more disturbing when the foolishness involves playing to stereotypes.
"Jersey Shore" somehow made the slur "guido" acceptable in the media, with the cast members arguing against logic that the word represents a "lifetsyle." "Party Down South," if it makes it onto TV, likely will restart the debate over whether the term "redneck" is derogatory or a badge of pride.
But with a concept like "Party Down South," the real question is not whether the South will rise again, but how low can Reality TV go.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, Miltie-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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By Robert Hadley
Businesses ready to take advantage of the immense power of email marketing are in luck — a plethora of vendors offering Web-based services are available.
Since the term "email marketing" is so broad, dividing your options into categories will help you whittle the list down to a manageable few. Some vendors are geared toward online event management and promotion, while others are more concerned with e-newsletter production and subscriptions. Some services stake out the middle ground, offering a suite of publishing, event promotion and survey tools.
All of the vendors reviewed here offer the ability to upload and manage distribution lists, cross-promote campaigns across social media platforms, and have a template gallery to help make your emails visually appealing.
Most let you create a form to capture contacts on your Website. Each of the services also offer compliance with the Can-Spam Act of 2003, which basically means your recipients can opt in or out of your campaigns.
Pricing ranges from free to a remarkable $12,000 per month for a plan that lets you send email to 3.1 million recipients.
Following are reviews of five of the most capable email marketing vendors currently available.
In terms of basic services, *Constant Contact has it all: list management, email and newsletter creation, surveys and polls, plus the ability to create event websites and accept payments via PayPal.
A 60-day free trial makes Constant Contact an appealing option for organizations that want to use a range of email marketing strategies but don't want to limit themselves to just one function (say, event management).
To help users mine the service's value, Constant Contact provides technical support, how-to videos and instructional newsletters. Pricing starts at $15 per month for basic service, and increases based on whether you add the survey or event modules, as well as on the size of your database.
Boasting a tagline as simple as "easy email newsletters," Mail Chimp delivers a robust e-publishing platform with social media integration.
A recently introduced feature, Social Pro, shows how many of your recipients are on Facebook, Twitter and other networks, and lets you segment your campaigns based on this data. You can also create QR codes for specific campaigns and share links to your newsletters across social media platforms.
Mail Chimp offers a free plan with 2,000 recipients and as many as 12,000 emails per month. Paid plans range from $10 to $240 per month based on the size of your recipient list and volume. You may also opt for the high-volume category to send to anywhere from 50,000 to 3.1 million subscribers, ranging from $380 to $12,000 monthly. For more details, visit http://mailchimp.com.
If you're a corporate event planner in charge of several high-attendance events each year, Cvent will likely be near the top of your list. Tools include budget management for separate events, online surveys and an RFP function that lets you solicit bids from a network of event venues and other service providers.
Integration with a variety of platforms is also available, such as SalesForce.com (customer relationship management) and travel planners (Concur, Passkey and GetThere). Pricing is not disclosed on Cvent's website, so for more information, call 866-318-4358.
With 700,000 customers worldwide, iContact seems capable of living up to its slogan of "email marketing for everyone."
Those customers were likely attracted by iContact's 30-day free trial and its specific palette of services designed to create an email, send it out and track the results.
Integration with Facebook and Twitter is provided, and you can manage campaigns via iPod, iPhone and Android devices. Pricing is based on the size of your subscriber database, and ranges from $10 (500 recipients) to $699 per month (50,000).
Vertical Response is unique among the vendors reviewed here in that it is the only one offering the ability to send direct mail postcards in addition to online surveys and email communications.
You can upload a customer list with both email and snail mail addresses and send a campaign in either print or electronic format.
Like the other services, Vertical Response lets you create custom fields to divide your list based on desired characteristics, plus you can track results via a Google gadget and schedule campaigns with the built-in calendar.
The postcard service boasts no minimum quantities and includes printing and mailing. Unlimited emailing is $8.50 per month, while 1,000 survey responses starts at $11.48 per month. Pay-as-you-go pricing is also available. Postcards are as low as 75 cents each.
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Training Camp Quotes: December 10-13
** Of course I want an important role on the team, but whatever Ty want me to do, I do. — Derrick Favors (KALL)
** When I start first playing basketball, I was watching [Memo] and just because of that, I was always a Utah Jazz fan…He's helping me a lot on the court, off the court. He's always telling me, "If you don't understand anything, you can ask me all the time." I think it's great. [also, that Al has been really helpful] — Enes Kanter (KALL)
** O'Connor has no doubts that player development manager Mike Sanders can coach the Jazz's young big men. O'Connor wondered why anyone would think you have to be tall to be a good big-man coach in the NBA. Sanders played center at times at UCLA and, as a player, worked his way through the NBA. He can coach anyone, O'Connor said. — (Trib)
Um…KOC actually made my confidence go down with that ("Sanders played center at times at UCLA").
** Most definitely. Make us stay on our toes, you know I'm sayin? Like I said, my young fella [Kanter], he go after every offensive rebound. I can't take no breaks when I'm guarding him, and that gon make me better. And I know I'm making him better, so you never too old to learn something from a young guy. — Al Jefferson on whether the young guys' energy helps the veterans (KALL)
** It's not a rush. We'll feel our guys, see which combination we feel is going to give us the best chance to advance faster. We want to make sure our guys understand the importance of winning and not just who's getting the start and who's coming off the bench. — Ty Corbin on setting rotations (KALL)
** I will go on the record right now in front of God and everybody. He is the most explosive, the most athletic overall, the strongest and most stable from foot to head than he's ever been, and with the lowest body fat ever. If he doesn't have his best season ever … I will be shocked. — Jazz strength and conditioning coach Mark McKown on Al Jefferson (AP)
** The first time we were at Phoenix and Steve Nash was out there, he was someone that I really looked up to and so that was different and weird. I like posted him up one time and he flopped on me so I was mad at him a little bit. — Gordon Hayward (KFAN)
** Unintentional Dirty Quote Machine
–This entire conversation with Ty Corbin:
Media: You said you were excited to watch the big guys go at each other.
Corbin: Oh yeah.
Media: Has it been fun so far?
Corbin: It really has.
Media: Did you do your first five-on-five last night?
Corbin: Yes. Uh, not the first five-on-five. We actually started the first day because we only did one on Friday, had some little freak play, did some up and down, just trying to get the guys get some rust off, and then last night we had the opportunity to do it with some referees.
–Later on in the conversation:
Ty on Devin Harris: His speed is starting to show nice. He get comfortable with himself and the guys get comfortable with his speed.
Ty on Harris again: A guy that good will figure out how to get himself off.
Ty on Favors (potentially playing more minutes): It be huge. It be huge. Because he's such a young guy, he can recover fast. (KALL)
Finally, all the best to Ronnie Price. Class act, Laker hater, dunked on Boozer, class act.


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(Note to Gordon Edes (who wrote the above story): the 1998 Yankees did not go 11-0 in the post-season. They lost two ALCS games. No team has gone 3-0, 4-0 and 4-0 since the three-round format began in 1995, though the 1999 Yankees and 2005 White Sox both went 11-1.)
General manager Theo Epstein says the team is set with the regular lineup and starting pitchers and will turn its attention to the bullpen and bench.
Daisuke Matsuzaka: "As a team, [winning the World Series] was the best. But as for personal accomplishment, it was not up to my standards. I feel that my command was something I need to improve."
2008 is the final year on Terry Francona's contract and the team hopes to sign him to an extension before spring training.
This is why bloggers like myself and Jere will never clutter our sites with ads for ticket brokers. Since this is specifically against Red Sox policy, the front office should make a serious effort to permanently revoke the season tickets of anyone found selling tickets this way.
The small town of Madras, Oregon held a parade for Jacoby Ellsbury.
When he spoke in the gym at Madras, Ellsbury referred to his big-league debut [June 30], how he was so nervous he almost threw up ("by far the most nervous I've ever been in my life for anything") and how Josh Beckett, who was pitching that night, approached him with a message: "Don't screw it up."
Later, he was asked if Beckett was just kidding with him.
"I didn't get any joke out of it," Ellsbury said, unsmiling. "Maybe if you ask him, maybe he'll say, 'Yeah, I was just joking,' but he didn't give me a wink or a smile or something. It was, 'Don't screw it up.'
"He came up to me and said, 'Is this your first game?'
"'Is this your debut?'
"'Don't screw it up.' That's what he told me, right before the game."


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Rise up the rankings of real estate fame and you might reel in some celebrity tenants, ranging from hit singers to soccer stars!
But there's more than just business at stake. Tenants will look to you for guidance on everything from romance to career choices. With your help, they just might tie the knot or land that dream job!
Build a dream home where dreams come true! And play with friends for special bonuses (currently in beta testing).
* Game data is stored on your device. Save data cannot be transferred between devices, nor can it be restored after deleting or reinstalling the app.
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
The following texts have been selected for being among the most important and influential books in the development of the idea of individual liberty, limited government, and the free market. Each author is represented by only one title in order to have as broad a range of authors as possible. Clicking on the author's name will take you to that author's bio page where additional works by that author are listed.


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Hellenic Post – ELTA wishes to provide the designated operators of other Union member countries with an update regarding the delays in the handling of inbound postal dispatches and delivery of items following the implementation of new customs procedures.
For EMS and parcels (CP), the situation has now returned to normal.
For letter post (LC/AO), the situation has already improved, and the backlog has been reduced to around one week for inbound mail from non-EU countries subject to customs control.
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Prescription drugs were allegedly the downfall of Whitney Houston. According to TMZ, Whitney Houston's family was told by L.A. County Coroner officials that the singer did not die from drowning, but rather from what appears to be a combination of Xanax and other prescription drugs mixed with alcohol according to family sources.
The site is also reporting that it was actually Whitney's aunt, Mary Jones, who discovered Whitney's body in the bathtub. Mary had laid out Whitney's dress for the evening on the bed and then left for about a half hour. When Whitney didn't come out of the bathroom, Mary entered, pulled Whitney out of the tub and began administering CPR.
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Graduation season is upon us and what better way to give a gift card than in a grad cap shaped card. I designed this card to give to my friend's daughter who is graduating from high school this year. The finished card measures 4" x 4" when complete, so it fits inside one of our medium envelopes or better yet, make a square envelope with our envelope punch board. Find out the rest of the supplies you'll need and where to get them HERE!
Grad Cap Gift Card Holder Tutorial
Step One
1. Start with a piece of 11" x 5-1/2" piece of Basic Black card stock. On the 11" side, score at the 5-1/2" mark. Note: I'm using Smoky Slate Card Stock, because black doesn't photograph well.
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2. Put the Diagonal Plate on your Simply Scored Scoring Board. On the 11" side, score diagonally on the 2-3/4" mark. Flip the card stock over and do the same for the other 11" side. Your card stock should look like it has a big 'X' scored in the middle.
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3. Keep the Diagonal Plate on your Simply Scored Scoring Board. On the 11" side, score diagonally on the 8-1/4" mark. Flip the card stock over and do the same for the other 11" side. Rotate the card stock 180 degrees and do the same for the other end and then flip and score once more, so that each of the FOUR corners has a diagonal score line.
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4. This is what your card stock will look like once it has been completely scored.
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5a. On one of the short ends, cut off both corners on the diagonal along the score lines.
5b. This is what your card stock will look like once you have cut the two corners off.
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6. Fold the card stock along the score lines as shown.
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7. Fold the bottom triangles inward. These triangles will form the gift card pocket.
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8. Cut a 3-7/8" x 3-7/8" square of Basic Black Card Stock. Cut it in half on the diagonal from corner to corner using the Stampin' Trimmer. We will only use one of the halves.
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9. Put Tombow on the folded triangles and adhere one of the triangles from step eight on top. Press down with your fingers to make sure you have good adhesion.
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10. This is what the pocket looks like once it's finished.
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11. Pierce the center of the card stock that will become the top of the cap.
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12. Place a black glimmer brad in the hole.
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13. To create white layers, cut two 3-1/2" squares. Leave one of the squares whole and cut the other in half on the diagonal. The square white layer hides the brad legs.
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14. Create a tassel using colored embroidery floss that matches the school's colors. Pearl embroidery floss works well (it's a little shiny, but not so slippery as to make tying a tassel difficult). I used the tutorial found HERE to create my tassel. Hang the tassel on the brad.
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15. Stamp the inside of the card. I stamped the words Congratulations and Happy Graduation in Black Staz On. I also used the speckled stamp from Gorgeous Grunge inked in Daffodil Delight to create the look of confetti. Happy Stamping!
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NEW YORK — When you hear that retirement isn't what it used to be, a first thought might be of active seniors traveling the globe instead of sitting in rocking chairs. But for plenty of Americans, especially those with little education, "retirement" involves continuing to work — and that will likely be even more common in coming years, a new study finds.
Right now, about 15 percent of people who consider themselves "retired" do some kind of work for pay — including 5 percent who work full time, according to a survey done for consumer financial Web site Bankrate.com.
That figure may skyrocket in coming years. The survey found 75 percent of adults who are not yet retired say they plan to work "as long as they can" during retirement — 39 percent because they want to and 32 percent because they'll need the money. Another 4 percent cited both reasons.
The study found 58 percent of respondents now expect to delay their retirement because of the financial crisis. That includes 20 percent of people now planning to retire one to five years later than they had hoped, 20 percent who will work more than five years extra, and 18 percent don't ever expect to be able to retire because of the meltdown. Education plays a big factor here — 44 percent of people with a high school education or less say they will never be able to stop working because of the financial crisis.
Among those who are already retired, 53 percent say they worry at least a little about money and wish they had saved more before leaving the work force. More women, 65 percent, worry at least a little about their finances, compared with 43 percent of men. And those with the least education — a high school diploma or less — say they worry a lot about money, with 30 percent wishing they had saved more for retirement.
The survey, which used telephone interviews of 1,003 adults over age 18, found 26 percent of current retirees depend solely on Social Security for their retirement income. That's most common among retirees with a high school education or less, 37 percent of whom have no pension, annuities or retirement savings to live on. Just 6 percent of retirees with a four-year college degree or more education live just on Social Security.
Meanwhile, 36 percent of people age 18-29 have not yet set up retirement accounts or started following a strategy to save for retirement, including 40 percent of people with a high school education or less.
The survey, done for Bankrate by Princeton Survey Research Associates on Sept. 17-20 using both landline and cell phone interviews, has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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